Beat Literature in a Divided Europe

Product Description Beat Literature in Europe offers in-depth analyses of how European authors and intellectuals working in different kind of political contexts read, translated and appropriated American Beat literature from the late 1950s to the present. About the Author Harri Veivo, Ph.D. (2001) University of Helsinki, is professor of Nordic Studies at the University of Caen Normandie. He has published many articles and edited volumes on the history of avant-garde and modernism, including “Jazzing up Modernism” (Modernism/Modernity, 2015).Petra James, Ph.D. (2009) Université Paris-Sorbonne, is chair of Czech Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has published a monograph on Bohumil Hrabal and numerous articles on cultural memory and the comparative history of the avant-garde and edited several collective monographs.Dorota Walczak-Delanois, Ph.D. (1997) Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, is professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has published widely on poetry and comparative studies, including Inne oblicze awangardy (2001) and Niedoczytani- nierozpoznani. O meandrach poezji polskiej XX i XXI wieku (2016).